In this volume the issue of whether there really was a Medieval Warm Period, and if so, where and when, is addressed.

Brian Fagan examines how subtle changes in the environment had far-reaching effects on human life, in a narrative that sweeps from the Arctic ice cap to the Sahara to the Indian Ocean.

This is a fascinating, original book for anyone interested in history, climate, or the new subject of how they interact.

This book is an important resource in helping to understand the intricacies of global climate change.

In this pathfinding volume, William C. Foster marshals extensive evidence that the heating and cooling of the MWP and LIA also occurred in North America and significantly affected the cultural history of Native peoples of the American ...

The book first offers some elements of scientific orientation, then examines in greater detail the connection between the climate and cultural development since the middle ages.

Argues that global warming is a natural, cyclical phenomenon that has not been caused by human activities and that its negative consequences have been greatly overestimated.

A member of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change examines the fossil-fuel industry's public relations campaign to discredit the science of climate change and deny the reality of global warming.

This is the first scholarly work devoted to the Little Ice Age, by an author whose research experience of the subject has been extensive.